Grimtotem Marauder

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Comment by Mousa

The best mob to farm for your Sprite Darter Hatchling (url provided Sprite Darter Hatchling) now after 4.0.3 that it is available to both factions as a zone drop. The amount of mobs is very good, and the respawn rate ultra fast. Very good spot to farm for the pet at high or low lvl, at New Thalanaar!

Comment by blademon64

Be careful farming these as Horde. There's a bunch of Alliance NPCs fighting them, and you will aggro them (no way to avoid it), and get PvP flagged. The Alliance in the zone will get the notice "New Thalaanar is under attack" and if any Allies care enough they'll come after you. Just a heads up.

Comment by Twyke

Easiest way as Druid?

1. Pop Starfall and hit as many mobs as possible2. Go Flight Form and loot the mobs

Comment by missy192

Since they are usually in groups of two or more, as a fury warrior using Cleave and/or Whirlwind is a sure way to kill quickly.

Want to go faster? Turn your auto-loot on so all you have to do is click and go.

Comment by playdafuture

If you are farming this mob for the pet, just consider yourself farming 1000 stacks of silk cloth.Also noted: These mobs de-spawn quite fast. So don't AoE too many and don't have the time to loot.

Comment by Nikkip

I wanted to post that I got a Recipe for Magic Resistance Potion off these guys. I am farming for the Sprite Darter Egg and have 1190 attempts. This is the FIRST recipe of this I seen drop from them. So I am assuming its pretty rare.

Comment by dieselh

this is surely the best spot to grind for the Sprite Darter Hatchling, you never run out of mobs cos the repop is istant, but this doesnt mean that you will get it after 5 mins, the drop rate is still ridicously low

Comment by pennilaymay

Do the Grimtotem Marauder NPCs disappear if I make all the quests in Ferals? I want to farm the sprite darter hatchling, but I am also doing the Loremaster Achieve. I asked a gm but he would not answer. Said he was not allowed to discuss it(I dont get why@_@)

Comment by LaneyLune

I was farming for silk today and started in SM cathedral. Upon the lockout, I decided to go here and farm since I still needed the Sprite Darter Egg. For one, this place is way more fun to farm for silk than SM and second, I actually got the Sprite Darter Egg! I am elated.

Definitely recommend this place to farm silk if you are still after this pet!

Comment by Heimdallen

Yeah, I can second the fact that these mobs are ridiculously good to grind for silk cloth. They spawn faster than you can kill them even with 2 people going at it non-stop. I got 300 silk cloth on average every 60 min or so (mind you this is at level 90 with a paladin going crazy with AOE).

I was actually farming the Sprite Darter Hatchling as the best advice seemed to be to farm these guys since they respawn so fast. However, let me tell you, after 16 hours of killing them, broken into 3 days at 5 or 6 hours each day, and 12,000 Grimtotem Marauders killed, I never got the pet. I did get 9 blues, which according to Wowhead had a drop rate off these Marauders of anywhere between 0.01% and a number so small wowhead just lists it at 0%, which is amusing because the Sprite Darter supposedly has a drop rate off the same Marauders of 0.02%, meaning I got 9 drops that were rarer than the pet itself. Hilarious.

In that time, I also got 120 greens, the 9 blues I mentioned (which included Obsidian Greaves and Deadwood Sledge which are both reported at a 0% drop they've been reported so few times), about 20 some odd patterns and recipes (again including a 0% drop of Schematic: Mithril Heavy-Bore Rifle), 3,000 silk cloth, 300 mageweave cloth, a bunch of healing and mana potions, and a ton of grays but I didn't keep track as I threw them all away to make room for the other stuff. So a lot of drops with much lower chances (allegedly) than the pet, but no pet. Haha.

I know I killed 12,000 Grimtotem Marauders because of my add-on that keeps track, and they allegedly have a 1 in 5,000 drop rate for the Sprite Darter pet (Rate of 0.02%, which by my math is 2 in 10,000 or 1 in 5,000), so I should have gotten it in that number of kills. Twice even. If it only worked that way. Ridiculous. Don't expect to sit down for 4 hours and get the Sprite Darter. In fact, expect to sit there for 20, 30, 40 hours, who knows, before you get it. I give up, I can't stand farming these guys with no results for any longer without driving myself mad, literally.

My advice: unless like you like unbelievably tedious repetition, save yourself your sanity and just buy the pet off the AH.